Born in Israel to Immigrants from Yemen and currently living in New York City and Tel Aviv, Zion Ozeri is one of the world’s leading photographers exploring the Jewish experience. Raised in Israel during a period of mass immigration, he interacted with many diverse cultures. This unique background gives him a cross-cultural perspective that suffuses his work.
Ozeri graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as Pratt Institute, both in New York City. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Jerusalem Report, Moment, the Middle East Insight, The Economist, Ha’aretz, and many other publications. His work has been exhibited in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, ANU, the Museum of The Jewish People in Tel Aviv, The Spertus Museum in Chicago, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, The Jewish Museum and many other museums and galleries.
Ozeri has published several books, including The Jewish World Family Haggadah, (Simon & Schuster, 2005), a coffee table book titled The Jews of Yemen, The Last Generation, (Keter, Jerusalem, 2005), and Pictures Tell: A Passover Haggadah (Gefen Publishing, 2022). Ozeri won a Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism in 2004 and is the recipient of the Covenant award for 2013. In 2004, he founded The Jewish Lens curriculum & project. In addition, Ozeri founded, and is the creative director of the “DiverCity Lens”, a curriculum and program implemented since 2012 in NYC public schools, through the New York City Department of Education. In addition, in 2018, Ozeri launched “WithIn the Image,” an early childhood project, through Paradigm in Chicago.
Zion Ozeri, Founder
Alisa Doctoroff, Co-founder
Linda Mirels
Sandy Antignas
Jim Seder
Ellen de Jonge-Ozeri z”l
Randie Malinsky, z”l